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Tonga: equality overtaking privilege
Land tenure in the Pacific • Melbourne • Published In 1971 • Pages: 106-128
By: Maude, Alaric Mervyn.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source deals with the Tongan land tenure system. Though most of the information pertains to modern-day Tonga, there is an outline of the historic changes in land tenure. Methods of acquiring access to land and data on the distribution of holdings are included.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- History
- Sociocultural trends
- Functional and adaptational interpretations
- Real property
- Acquisition and relinquishment of property
- Classes
- Lineages
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Tongans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2006
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Oceania
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Polynesia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Geographer
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Eleanor C. Swanson; Martin J. Malone; 1978
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1961
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca. 1850-1960s
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Tonga
- NotesAdditional notes
- Alaric Maude
- Footnotes that do not contain information relevant to the text have been indexed for the subject INFORMATION SOURCES LISTED IN OTHER WORKS (113) and are on p. 127
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 127-128)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 71599338
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tongans